When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds or millions of years after a meteorite smashes into Earth, researchers are left ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

WASHINGTON — A big brush fire in Bowie, Maryland, took several hours to put out, and while firefighters thought that might have been because it was started by a meteorite, scientists make a convincing ...

Ancient stardust extracted from a meteorite contains specks that are up to about 3 billion years older than the solar system, making them the oldest solids ever dated in a lab, researchers report.

A trio of rock hunters have donated two fingernail-sized samples of the meteor that blazed across Nevada and California last month to the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. The lab, which is currently ...